Kyra - Senior Back End Engineer (Egypt Based)

• 6+ years backend development with Node.js and TypeScript in production. • Product mindset — you’ve shipped features where the brief was a paragraph, not a ticket. You ask why before how, make calls when requirements are vague, and iterate after release. You’ve sat across from non-engineers and left with a sharper problem than you walked in with. • Strong relational database experience — schema design, query optimisation, safe migrations at scale. • Comfortable deploying and operating your own services on a major cloud provider — containers, CI/CD pipelines, the basics of running things in production. You don’t need to be an infra specialist, but you don’t need handholding either. • Queue-based background job processing patterns. • REST API design and documentation. • Git workflow maturity — branching strategies, code review, migration safety. You understand why you don’t run destructive commands on a production migration. • STRONGLY PREFERRED • STRONGLY PREFERRED • Shipped AI features to production — you know what evals are for, why prompts regress, and why “it worked in testing” isn’t enough. • Columnar / analytics databases for heavy aggregate queries. • In-memory caching and session stores. • DDD or domain-driven design — explicit module boundaries, repositories, services, event-driven patterns. • Production observability — you’ve triaged real issues, not just configured dashboards. • OAuth, OTP, or session-based auth systems in production. • Social media platform APIs (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube). • Search infrastructure for large datasets. • Monorepo tooling and workflows. • Side projects, OSS contributions, or tools you’ve built for yourself that other people now use — signal that you ship for the love of shipping. • WHAT THIS PERSON LOOKS LIKE • Holds opinions and changes them fast — you’ll ship the wrong thing sometimes and replace it a week later. That’s the job. • Debugs across boundaries — when a metric shows the wrong number, you can trace it from the frontend component through the API layer down to the database query and figure out where it breaks. • Writes code that doesn’t need babysitting — proper validation, error handling, and patterns other team members can follow. • Communicates proactively — posts in Slack when deploying, writes migration plans before running them, documents API contracts for the frontend team. • Moves fast without breaking things — we deploy to production multiple times a week. You should be comfortable with that cadence while still being careful. • A small, high-output engineering team (~10 people) led by the current engineering lead. Async standups, weekly refinement, ship directly to production. • This is a heavy AI-usage environment — AI tooling is woven into how we build, review, and ship. Comfort using it daily is expected. • 💟 Support • If you have a condition or require an adjustment to our interview process - please let us know so we can make adjustments to support you. Please note that when you submit an application or resume, your data will be processed in line with our privacy policy.